Kerrie Nordstrom

Draconem

Prologue There weren't always dragons in the valley. In fact, minstrels often spoke of the time they arrived. The wind roared and raged, tearing around and through the dense wood Althea sheltered in. Four days and nights travel through the winter boneyard that the forest's growing phase was in would be near impossible for a seasoned tracker. Their family's woodsman had put every effort in to teaching his young charges when they were given to his care as small children. He had recommended against this very undertaking for even someone as seasoned as he.